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Sledzie

Sledzie

3/4 Chop onion – finely sliced.
1/4 Leek – sliced.
Boil 1 litre water and 1/3 litre apple cider vinegar bring to boil with 5-6 pimento and one bay leaf. Add salt and sugar to taste.
Then add leeks and onion until wilted (3-4 minutes)
Strain
Once it cools, wash the matias herrings to remove oil and allow to drain.
Chop to whatever size you wish.

In another bowl add mayonnaise, and grate one apple to add to the mayonnaise.
Mix together, and add with other ingredients, adding the herrings last.
May need to add lemon or sugar or mayo to taste.
Add 1/3 cup of cream to mellow the flavor.

Dad’s Wafers

Dad’s Wafers ©

200 g Tisa Wafers
250 g plain milk biscuits finely crushed
200 g icing sugar
250 g unsalted butter (softened)
4 whole eggs
2-3 tbsp cocoa and dash of coffee (optional)
1tbsp of vanilla essence

Method

Mix together in mixing bowl with mixer, the softened butter, icing sugar, 4 eggs, cocoa, vanilla essence and last of all crushed biscuits. Mix until well blended. Then spread between 5 sheets of wafers. Press down firmly and leave in refrigerator to set for a short time before slicing.

Bryndzyczka

Neufchatel cheese or philly
Milk and sour cream

Put in mixer and make to preferred consistency

Curry powder to taste
Chopped chives to taste
Chopped dill to taste
Vegetta for seasoning or other

Mix all together.

Baked Vege

Lightly boil veges like sweet potato, zucchini, potatos or pumpkin cut in cubes 2×2 cm with some salt.
Cook, strain and dry.

Lay out veggies on the bottom of a casserole dish, to a thickness of 2cm thick layer.

Top mixture

250g neufchâtel cheese
4 eggs
150 gms cream
150 gms sour creme

Blend together well, and season including herbs such as parsley or basil or lemon pepper, vegetta all to taste. Pour over vegetables and sprinkle with grated cheese such as tasty.

Bake on 160 to start and after 20 mins reduce to 140 until golden brown.

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Option 2

Add soft tip asparagus or spinach to the dough recipe below.
5 eggs beaten, 1/3c milk
150 gms cream
300 gms sour cream
Seasoning
Lots of garlic
Other seasoning to taste
1/2 c grated cheese, save some for sprinkling on top

Once all of this is blended add either precooked spinach or can of asparagus tips.

Can have sliced tomato on top
Quiche

Dough

200g self raising floor
100 gms unsalted butter
1 egg yolk
Icy cold water

Chop soft butter with flour and make a crumble. Then add egg yield and icy cold water and make dough. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1/2 cm.

Put into quiche dish and press dough in tightly.

Bake shell for 10-12 mins in a preheated oven (180C) Can be done day before. (don’t bake it right thru). Make sure shell is cold prior to adding filling.

Rest of cheese – 3 eggs, ¾ c of sour cream and spinach.

Add lots of fresh garlic, and add dried garlic. Season with salt and pepper, vegeta, add 1 Tbsp self raising flour and mix together well.

Pour into base and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake in oven for 35 mins on 180C

Ryba po Grecku

600g Carp – minced
1 medium onion
1 white bread roll

soak roll in warm milk, to soften (but not too mushy) until spongy and mince all together

season with pepper salt and seasoning, touch of nutmeg.

Fry in hot oil – with fish balls coated in breadcrumbs (optional)

Put aside

VEges
700 kg Carrot
5 medium onions

In oil, soften the chopped onion (not browning), and add grated carrot, and allow it to simmer gently. Add 2 tbsp tomato paste. Salt and season, and a touch of sugar.

Add bay leaves and 5 pimento seeds and some grated nutmeg, until soft. When soft, add the fish cakes and cover with veges. Allow to warm through and serve.

Barszcz

Take all veges, carrots, parsnips, onion, garlic, celery, leek, dried mushroom, and bay leaves and pimento, 1-2 cabbage leaves or heart of the cabbage. Capsicum. Seasoning, salt, stock cube or vegetta.

Bring to boil and simmer for 1.5 hours. Strain and throw away veges leaving a clear broth.

Boil chopped beetroots and when cooked, strain and leave clear broth (recycle the beetroot for a beet salad).

Add juice from 1 large can of whole beetroots. Mix the two broths plus canned juice from beets together.

Chop fresh garlic into this broth – 5 cloves (or more to taste)

Warm till very hot, but do not bring to boil. (will lose flavour). Can add dried mushrooms, caraway seed and continue seasoning to taste, even adding sugar to taste.

(for perfect taste, add 1 sache per 3 litres with the originally created vegetable, added while still very hot broth ‘kucharek barszcz czerwony’ available at Gaganis.

Super Lamb Chops

1kg Leg of lamb chops – find leg of lamb and ask butcher to cut into chops

Season with vegetta, salt and pepper
After half an hour, place in very well heated frypan with oil + bay leaf

Put chops in and make sure you brown them lightly on both sides.

Into saucepan, add some oil (from frypan) place chops and lots of onion (2 large) and cover with lid with slight gap in lid. Also add 2 cloves of garlic. Cover and allow to simmer lightly until very tender.

Check from time to time and add a little water when needed to prevent sticking.

Eat – yummm!

Kawalerskie

1 kg Oyster blade fillets
5 medium onions

Remove all fat and pound the meat on both sides (not too hard). Season with vegeta, salt and pepper, and dried granulated garlic.

On a 2 “ oven baking dish cover base with oil and tightly pack fillets inside.

Chop onions roughly and sprinkle over the top of the fillets. Sprinkle Tasty or Mild grated cheese over the top.

Then sprinkle another layer of onions, and again season with vegeta, salt and pepper ( not to much as it has already been seasoned )

Lighly cover with mayonnaise on top of the onion and then sprinkle finely chopped parsely over the entire dish.

Cover with baking paper, and then with alfoil.

Bake in preheated oven 200C for 30 mins, then reduce to 160C and turn baking tray around for a further 25 mins checking occasionally to ensure it is not too dry. Check tenderness of meat with fork. When tender then ready!

Yummm

Eggplant rollups

Cut eggplant lenghthways – about 8mm wide, and throw into boiling salted water.
Try to hold it down under the water with a spoon.

After about 8 minutes (until softened but not cooked)
Take them out – put on chopping board on top of each other in rows

Use another chopping board to place on top – and keep it there so all water is squeezed out (for at least 6 hours, preferably overnight)

Treat it like pancakes – stuff with whatever you want….

*mince meat & tomato
*Neufchatel or philly cheese, softened spinach, garlic, salt to taste, 3 tbsp breadcrumbs, 1 tbsp cornflower, season with pepper salt etc. Quite a bit of garlic – as much as you can handle to taste. Optional – fetter cheese for stronger flavor.

spread over the eggplant and roll up

On baking dish place oil.

When rolled up ensure the join of the roll up is on the bottom facing the tray, Spread oil on trays and on top of rollups. Sprinkle with Parmesan. Cover with baking paper and alfoil before placing in oven.
Bake for 45 minutes, begin on 170 – then 150.
Keep checking frequently with a toothpick to see it is not too crunchy.

They will look a light gold colour when ready.

Capsicum

Cut capsicums into segments and discard seeds

Put onto oven tray, with skin facing the griller

Grill until skin is brown and bubbling (8-10 minutes) Not too long so it is not burnt.

Once removed from oven, put in bowl and cover with lid while doing next lot of capsicums, so it steams

Wait till cooled down and peel off skin.

Take as much real garlic as you want – crush it and mix with capsicum, and add a bit of sugar, balsamic vinegar and touch of salt (to taste), and olive oil. (mix gently)

Yyou can freeze, or keep up to a week.

For variety you can add some herbs to this mixture, such as basil.